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BT betters pay offer under strike threat
Dangles 3% rise over workers
Updated BT has made another pay offer to the Communications Workers Union (CWU) in the hope of avoiding a strike.
As is standard form for industrial disputes, details of a letter sent late last night were leaked to the media this morning. It improves on the two per cent, one year offer rejected by the CWU with the promise of a three per cent rise next year.
Performance-related bonuses of £250 are also reportedly on the table.
On Friday union leaders announced that a ballot on industrial action will go ahead after BT did not meet a noon deadline to improve its offer.
Deputy general secretary Andy Kerr criticised "blatant double standards" over the much more generous pay rises awarded to senior executives.
The union plans to comment on the new offer this afternoon, when we'll update this story.
If a walkout goes ahead, it will be the first at BT in more than 20 years. ®
This afternoon the CWU's Andy Kerr said:
We're very disappointed that BT's revised offer remains materially unchanged for this year in terms of pay.As we've made clear, 2 per cent is unacceptable for our members as it does not reflect the reward they expect given the contribution they have made to cost savings of £1.75 billion and profits of over £1bn. In addition, inflation is at 5.3 per cent and staff are comparing this offer with the large salary rises and bonuses for senior executives which expose the blatant double standards being adopted by the company when it comes to remuneration.
BT's decision to leak their offer to the media today has also raised trust issues for us with the company. We will meet BT to discuss whether an improved offer exists but we will continue to press ahead with plans to ballot our members on industrial action in the absence of any real progress on pay.


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Rona Wang and DaiWei Wang from the laboratories of Drs. A Churg and JL Wright (University of British Columbia), work with rat models to examine lung diseases related to cigarette smoking. They routinely assay changes in expression of more than a dozen genes, including procollagen type I, connective tissue growth factor (CTGF), transforming growth factor-α (TGF-α), and platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)-α and –β, which all require that RNA extraction and RT-PCR be performed immediately after sample collection.
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Figure 1. RNAlater® Tissue Collection: RNA Stabilization Solution Stabilizes Gene Expression in Rat Explants. Rat explants were either processed immediately after harvesting (Fresh) or stored in RNAlater Tissue Collection: RNA Stabilization Solution (RNAlater-treated) for 1 week. Total RNA was extracted and reverse transcribed, and the resulting cDNA was stored at –20°C for 3 months before being assayed by PCR. The control was PCR products stored at 4°C for 3 months. |
Figure 2. RNAlater® Tissue Collection: RNA Stabilization Solution Stabilizes Gene Expression in Rat Explants. Rat explants were either frozen at –80°C for 1 week or stored in RNAlater Tissue Collection:RNA Stabilization Solution for 1 week. Total RNA was extracted and stored at –20°C for 1 week before being used in an RT-PCR assay to detect procollagen type I. |


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STATUS: And what a way to begin. I read some sample pages over the weekend and today I requested a full manuscript. Just like that. Let the yearly tally begin!
What's playing on the iPod right now? ANGEL by Simply Red
And what better way to start the New Year then by helping y'all with that strange and frustrating (but sometimes wonderful) thing called the query letter.
In the past, I've done numerous blog entries on the original query letters sent to me by authors who became my clients. [See the side bar: Agent Kristin's Queries—An Inside Scoop.]
I haven't done that in quite a while and voila, what better way to kick off the year. So first up is Courtney Milan. Let me give you a little history since this query letter came through via a recommendation from my current client Sherry Thomas.
Basically Sherry had read the opening chapters, loved them, and then sent me an email that I needed to check out Courtney's work asap. Funny enough, I had gotten the email from Sherry right before a conference where Courtney had already scheduled to meet me in person to give her pitch.
This is pretty rare but based on Sherry's recommendations and Courtney's wonderful in-person pitch, I requested the full manuscript right then and there. When she sent us her novel, here is the letter she sent along with it.
I'm sharing because had she simply sent me a query letter with this same info, I would have asked for sample pages and now I'm going to share the 'why' of it with you.
My comments in blue.
Dear Ms. Megibow:
I met Ms. Nelson this last weekend at a pitch appointment at the Chicago Spring Fling conference. She had spoken with Sherry Thomas earlier about my historical romance, PROOF BY SEDUCTION. Ms. Nelson asked me to send you the full, which is now attached.
As one of London's premier fortune tellers, Jenny Keeble knows all about lies. After all, the fastest way to make money is to tell people what they want to hear. [Okay, at first I thought the whole fortune teller angle was a little contrived but she puts a different spin on it with her insight of how well it works in terms of telling people what they want to hear. It struck me right away that this author might be using this plot set up for a different purpose. I was right.] It works–until Gareth Carhart, the Marquess of Blakely, vows to prove what he and Jenny both know: that Jenny is a fraud. [Loved this!]
Gareth only wants to extricate his naïve young cousin and heir from an unhealthy influence. The last thing the rigidly scientific marquis expects is his visceral reaction to the intelligent, tenacious, and–as revealed by a wardrobe malfunction–very desirable fortune teller. [I'm completely won over here. Courtney does a great job of outlining the opening plot catalyst that launches the story (removing the heir from her clutches), of giving character insight (rigidly scientific marquis), and adding an amusing touch with the wardrobe malfunction line. I sense this work is going to be witty and it doesn't disappoint.] But she enrages him. She tempts him. She causes him to lose his head entirely and offer a prediction of his own: He'll have her in bed before the month is out. The battle lines are drawn. Jenny can't lose her livelihood, Gareth won't abandon logic, and neither is prepared to accept love. [The crux of the conflict neatly explained. Also, her use of the words "enrages," and "tempts" leads me to think it will be sexy and I kind of like that in historicals.]
I am a finalist in Romance Writers of America's Golden Heart competition for unpublished romance. I currently work as a lawyer …[bio info deleted by Courtney's request] My romance writing interests may seem rather different from my daily writing, where I focus on law issues. But all good lawyers are, at heart, just story tellers, and I find the two writing practices balance each other.Please feel free to contact me if you have any additional questions, and thank you for taking the time to consider my manuscript.
Courtney Milan
This novel plus a second book sold for six figures to Harlequin at auction. Tomorrow I'll share the submission letter I sent to editors so you'll see my pitch for this novel. I find that can also lend some insight into the query process.


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Rising Sea Levels
A rise in sea levels is one of the best-known consequences of global warming. We'll take a look at two ways that higher temperatures worldwide are producing higher sea levels. We'll also debunk one misconception about another result of global warming that does not directly cause higher sea levels. Finally, we'll place the current situation into the context of rising (and receding) sea levels over the past few million years.
Melting Ice Sheets and Glaciers
As was mentioned in the reading on the water cycle, about 97% of Earth's water is in the oceans already. About 2/3rds of the remainder is in ice sheets and glaciers. Various estimates place the total volume of ice in glaciers and ice sheets at somewhere between 24 and 30 million cubic km. About 90% of the polar ice sheet and glacial ice is in Antarctica; most of the rest is in Greenland; a tiny fraction is locked up in mountain glaciers elsewhere.
As global temperatures have risen, some of this ice has begun to melt. Of course, each year, with the changing seasons, new snowfall adds mass to the ice while warmer summer temperatures cause some melting and thus a reduction in the ice mass. Overall, however, global warming has begun to disturb this equilibrium; melting has outpaced snowfall, and the net amount of ice has begun to diminish. So far, this net loss of ice has been greatest in the mountain glaciers outside of the polar regions and in the Greenland ice sheet, while the Antarctic ice sheet seems (so far) less disturbed. As this ice melts, the runoff flows down to the sea, gradually raising sea levels.
How gradually? Scientists use averages from a large number of tide gages around the globe to estimate global average sea level. Since 1900, sea level has risen between 1 and 2 millimeters per year (10-20 cm or 3.9-7.9 inches per century) on average. During the preceding 3,000 years, scientists estimate that sea level was almost constant, rising at a rate of 0.1 to 0.2 mm per year.
Several factors complicate such measurements. Tides, storm surges and other "peaks and valleys" in ocean level caused by atmospheric pressure systems, and similar phenomena cause local variations in sea level. Each year, sea level rhythmically rises and falls by about 8 mm as snowfall seasonally accumulates on the ice sheets and melts away again in summer. The sizes of ocean basins change, ever so slightly, plate tectonics drags continents around the face of the globe and creates new islands via volcanism. Land masses that were depressed in elevation by the weight of massive ice caps during the last ice age continue to "spring back" to their former positions, thousands of years after the weight of the ice caps was removed (rocks "spring back" rather slowly!).
Since 1992, satellite measurement of sea levels have supplemented the tide gage readings. Unfortunately, the satellite altimetry readings do not match the tide gage values; the satellite indicates a rate of sea level rise of 3 mm per year, while no such rate increase appears in the tide gage records for the same time period. Scientists are not yet certain what to make of the discrepancy. Some think the satellite is incorrectly calibrated. Others suspect that the difference may somehow be related to the different range of coverage of the two systems; the satellite provides readings covering much of the globe, while tide gages are necessarily relegated to coastlines.
What about the future? Given the difficulties associated with accurately measuring current sea level rise, it probably comes as no surprise that estimating future sea level rise is a tricky business. The IPCC's Third Assessment Report in 2001 predicted sea level would rise 9 to 88 cm by 2100. Recent field work seems to indicate that glaciers in Greenland may be melting much more quickly that previously thought, fueling speculation that sea level might rise more quickly than once presumed. This is, of course, an area of ongoing active research.
Images courtesy the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). Animation by Windows to the Universe staff (Randy Russell). |
Melting Sea Ice - A Misconception
Note that so far we have been talking about ice masses located on land. As land ice melts and the meltwater runs down to the sea, it obviously adds water to the oceans and raises sea levels. What about sea ice, the stuff that forms a frozen cap floating on top of water?
Decreases in sea ice, especially in the Arctic, have also been grabbing headlines of late. You've probably read stories about the plight of polar bears, who rely on the presence of sea ice for their seal-hunting livelihoods. Scientists have indeed noted a fairly rapid decline in the overall size of the area covered by sea ice in the Arctic. This decline does have implications for climate change; it decreases albedo (high albedo ice-covered areas become low albedo ocean), causing those areas to absorb more solar radiation, causing further heating. Also, changes to ocean salinity (the sea ice has little salt in it, so it releases virtually fresh water as it melts) and temperature caused by sea ice melting alter ocean currents, which also affects climate. But how does melting sea ice affect sea level?
In short, it doesn't. When floating ice melts, it doesn't change the level of the water it was floating in. As you are probably aware, ice is less dense that liquid water; that's why ice floats. When ice melts, it becomes denser; the same mass fits into a smaller volume. The change in volume exactly offsets the extra bit of the ice that was sticking up above the water's surface. Don't believe me? Try this: place some ice in a cup of water, and make a mark at the waterline. Wait for the ice to melt. Check the new water level. It won't change!
So, although melting sea ice is both an indicator of and a contributor to climate change, it does not alter sea level. Melting ice on land, however, does... when the meltwater flows into the sea.
Thermal Expansion of Sea Water
You probably realize that most materials expand when heated. Water is one such material, at least over most temperature ranges. You may not realize, however, that this tendency of water to expand when heated plays a role in sea level rise.
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As was mentioned earlier, rising atmospheric temperatures will gradually produce elevated temperatures in the oceans as well. This temperature rise is likely to be quite small at first; however, the volume of water affected is immense. The table (left) shows the percent volume increase for a quantity of water for each 1° C of increased temperature, at various initial temperatures.
Here's an example. Suppose 1 liter of water, initially at 20° C, was heated to 21° C. It would expand by 0.021%. It would increase in volume by 0.21 milliliters. This tiny increase seems trivial, until we recall that the world's oceans contain some 1,400,000,000 cubic kilometers of water! Even a tiny fractional increase adds up to a very large actual increase in volume, and hence substantial sea level rise.
Of course, the different layers of the ocean (surface layers and deep ocean) will not be heated equally. Also, the volumes of the different layers are not the same; nor are their initial temperatures, which affects the rate at which they expand (see table). The surface layer of the ocean contains roughly 50,000,000 km3 of water, and has temperatures ranging from freezing near the poles to around 30° C in the tropics. The mid ocean, where the thermocline produces the transition from warm surface to cold deep water, holds about 460,000,000 km3 of water and spans a large range of temperatures. The deep ocean holds the most water, some 890,000,000 km3, but because of its relatively cool temperatures of 4° C or less is also less prone to expansion as its temperature rises slightly. Once again, the story is complex and scientists do not yet have all the answers. It is easy to understand why supercomputers are so widely used in climate research! Suffice it to say that computer models of climate change predict that thermal expansion of sea water will play as large a role, or possibly greater, than meltwater runoff in raising sea levels in the coming decades and centuries.
Sea level data from 1880 to the present, as measured by tide gages and
satellite altimetry. The numerous colored lines indicate records from
each of the 23 tide gages; the thicker black curve is a running 3-year
average of all gages combined. The shorter thick red line shows recent
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A compilation of sea level estimates for most of the Holocene interglacial,
from 9,000 years ago to the present day. The thick black line is a least-squares
fit to the data points. Sea level changes within the last century are
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Sea level data from 24,000 years ago to the present. This data set spans
the time from the last glacial maximum during the Wisconsin glacial 20,000
years ago to today. The thick black curve is a least squares fit of the
various data sets, and shows that sea level has risen more than 120 meters
since the last glacial maximum. |
Estimates of sea level over the last 540 million years. The two curves
(red and blue) represent radically different techniques for estimating
sea level. Neither has sufficient resolution to actually show sea level
changes during the most recent few millennia. The vertical black bar in
the lower left corner indicates the range of sea level values during the
most recent glacial to interglacial transition (from the Wisconsin glacial
through the Holocene interglacial). |
History of Rising (and Falling!) Sea Levels
Humans did not invent climate change. Earth's climate has been changing throughout our planet's history. Cool periods, including ice ages, have created vast continental ice sheets at times, dramatically lowering sea levels worldwide. Warmer spells melted those ice sheets (and at times, the entire polar caps), raising sea levels and flooding what are now coastal land areas. Such events have happened many times, even in the fairly recent few million years of Earth's 4.6 billion year long "lifetime". A thorough account of these events is beyond the scope of this course. We will, however, take a quick look at a few of the more recent freeze/thaw cycles and their effects on sea levels, to help provide us with perspective on modern times and our current episode of climate change.
Let's quickly review some terminology related to "ice ages" and look at some of the most recent ones. Scientists and the general public actually use the term "ice age" in a slightly different way, though both use it to refer to an especially cold period in Earth's history when ice sheets covered much of the land for long periods. From the stricter scientific perspective, an "ice age" is a period in Earth's history when temperatures were cool enough to form ice caps at the poles. This implies, of course, that during part's of our planet's history the poles have been ice free; and such is indeed the case. By this definition, we are currently in an ice age; one that began about 40 million years ago (mya) and intensified around 3 mya. Scientists recognize, however, that there are warmer and cooler "spells" during an ice age. They call the cold spells "glacials" and the warmer periods in between "interglacials". Colloquial use of the term "ice age" corresponds to the scientific term "glacial".
We are now in the midst of an interglacial, called the Holocene, that began somewhere between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago. The last glacial (or colloquially, "ice age") that ended roughly 10 millennia ago is referred to as the Wisconsin glacial in North America (it goes by different names in Europe!). The Wisconsin glacial began around 110,000 years ago, while the prior interglacial lasted about 20,000 years starting 130,000 years ago. Certain periodic changes in Earth's orbital motions, referred to as a group as Milankovitch Cycles, tend to usher glacial and interglacial periods in and out during the course of an ice age. These cycles have periods of 40,000 and 100,000 years. Scientists believe, based on the Milankovitch Cycles, that the current interglacial is likely to end roughly 50,000 years from now, barring excessive human disruption of natural patterns of climate change.
During the peak of the Wisconsin glacial glaciers covered almost a third of Earth's land surface, as compared to about 11% today. At the time of the last glacial maximum, about 20,000 years ago, sea levels were about 122 meters (400 feet) lower than they are today. As global temperatures began to rise and the ice began to recede, sea levels rose relatively rapidly at an average rate of about 10 mm/year (a meter per century) between 15,000 and 6,000 years ago. This rate of sea level rise is about 5 to 10 times as rapid as the rise we are currently experiencing. A vertical rise of sea level by a meter per century may not seem an especially radical change. However, recall that coastal plains and continental shelves have shallow slopes; so a vertical rise of one meter corresponds to a change in location of the coastline of roughly a kilometer in many places.
Before the Wisconsin glacial, during the preceding interglacial, a warmer climate melted much of the ice from the preceding glacial. Around 125,000 years ago sea levels were about 5.5 meters (18 feet) higher than they are today.
As was mentioned earlier, the current ice age (in the stricter scientific sense of the term) began about 40 million years ago and intensified three million years ago. Before the beginning of this more intense period, scientists believe that sea levels may have been as much as 50.3 meters (165 feet) higher than today during interglacial spells.
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Last year Arizona Site Stewards began finding Geocaches located at a few of the archaeological sites they monitor. They alerted the land managers to the potential impacts of the game being played at or near archaeological sites (or in conservation areas). In September 2002, the State Historic Preservation Office, the BLM, and Steve Gross (unofficially representing the Geocachers) co-sponsored a meeting between the Geocaching community and the land managers to discuss ways of Geocaching could be played in an appropriate manner on public lands. |We invited each of the public land managers, as well as representatives of tribes and several of the preserves in the Phoenix/Scottsdale metro area, to discuss their policies to the Geocachers. The Geocachers were given equal time to voice concerns and time to network with the land managers. Many of the land managing agencies had never heard of the game of Geocaching and were unaware that the game was being playing on lands under their jurisdiction. Except for the National Park Service, many had no formal or even an informal policy regarding this type of activity. Some felt it is an appropriate use of public lands, others felt there should be some limitations. We felt the meeting was beneficial in bringing the issue to the front and in opening dialogue between the Geocachers, the various land managers, and the Arizona Site Stewards who volunteer for the various land mangers in cultural resource protection. By this time, most of the land managers have formalized a policy for this type of game. We would like to engage a new generation of Geocachers to the rules for playing the game on public lands. To this end, we are sponsoring a roundtable discussion for land managers and Geocachers. If you feel Geocaching may be an issue for cultural resource management in the future or if you are a Geocacher and want to have your voice heard, we invite you to attend this informal discussion group at the
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Huge Demand of Media Streaming Services Market by 2028 with Major Key Players – Apple Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft – Bulk Solids Handling
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I got fed up looking for a nice version of an eclipse tag cloud so instead I made my own.
Its simple but effective.
You can download the archive here. Or look at the code below.
All you should need to do to display it is make a viewpart and then write something like.
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With a few bars of that wicked good stuff in my hot little hands, I left the shop. Both my mind and my heart were racing a little bit. I knew just what I was going to make for my terrine entry - a torrone semifreddo!
Now, delicious as this would be on its own, I also felt that I needed to have another layer on my terrine, for a contrast of color and texture. This second layer should also contain some kind of nuts, and should preferably be Italian in nature. Well, I had two jars of Nutella sitting in my Bermuda Triangle of a pantry, so I decided to break out one and make a chocolate - hazelnut semifreddo too. I mean, what could be more quintessentially Italian than Nutella? I decided to call my creation Torronutella Semifreddo Terrine. Pretty catchy, huh? Believe me, it sounds a lot more aristocratic than it really is!
Essentially, what I did was make both recipes independently and freeze them together to form the terrine. I prepared the torrone semifreddo first and let it freeze up overnight. The next day, I made the chocolate-hazelnut version, spread it over the frozen torrone layer and froze it again. I wasn't able to find hazelnuts anywhere, so I used roasted pistachio nuts instead. Crushed pistachios are commonly used in all kinds of Italian pastries, so I felt okay with that.
In order to ensure pain-free unmolding, I lined the mold with plastic wrap that hung over the sides. That way, I could just lift the terrine out in one sinfully sweet, chunky, creamy hunk of frozen heaven. I dressed the terrine up with a little chocolate sauce for the pictures, but it really didn't need it. Both of the layers harmonized beautifully together and it was marvelous on its own!
For the Torrone Semifreddo:
6 ounces hard Italian torrone, with almonds
In a small saute pan, add almonds and 2 tbsp. sugar. Saute over high heat until sugar starts to carmelize and the almonds are toasted. Spread out in the bottom of the terrine mold. Set aside.
Use a sturdy chopping knife to cut the nougat into small pieces, then grind it to a granular consistency in the food processor.
In another bowl, preferably a chilled steel one, whip the cream until it forms stiff peaks.
Add the whipped cream, the rum, and the ground nougat to the beaten egg yolks, mixing well to distribute all the ingredients uniformly.
For the Chocolate-Hazelnut Semifreddo:
4 large eggs
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 jar Nutella, divided
1 cup heavy cream, whipped to soft peaks
1 tbsp hazelnut liqueur (I used Frangelico)
1/2 cup roasted pistachio nuts, coarsely chopped
Heat Nutella in the microwave for about 10-15 seconds to soften it up. Set aside.
Place eggs and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer. Place mixing bowl over a pot of simmering water and whisk until the eggs are warm, about 2 minutes.
Place the bowl in mixer stand. Using the whisk attachment, whip the eggs on high speed until pale and tripled in volume, about 5 minutes.
Add two thirds of the Nutella and mix on low speed until blended. Gently fold in whipped cream and chopped hazelnuts.
Scrape mixture into into the mold and spread evenly over the torrone layer. Spoon remaining third of the Nutella lengthwise down center of the mold letting it sink into semifreddo.
Cover top of pan with plastic wrap and freeze for at least 8 hours or overnight.
To serve, lift the terrine out of the mold using the plastic wrap overhang. If the terrine sticks, place the mold on a dish towel soaked in very hot water for a minute or two. This should soften the terrine a bit and make it easier to unmold.
Cut the semifreddo into 1 inch slices and serve on dessert plates with the garnish of your choice.


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i love the week between christmas and new year's day. there's a magical pull to the future while looking back with gratitude and (mostly) satisfaction. how do you acknowlege this transition?
i do it with 'standing here' self-portraits. i try to take at least one per month and really enjoy looking back at the places i've been and the space i inhabited. some of them are fun and flighty and some really put me back in the emotion of that moment.
this year my feet touched both solid ground and undulating funhouse floors. i slipped a few times and had to call at least one time-out to lie down; but mostly i stood confidently facing all the love, regret, beauty, acceptance, rejection, grace and fear.
some of the best places i stood in 2010:
- my home. the home that loves me.
- my garden. day or night, sun or stars, flora or snow, she always whispers, "do it."
- the cold pacific, who welcomed me home to california.
- the warm atlantic, who showed me i could stand solid even with shifting sand beneath my feet.
- bikram yoga class.
- with the most beautiful, talented, graceful women. feeling like i belonged.
- at the door. the same door i hovered around throughout 2009. i'm still standing here wondering what's on the other side, trying to plan for all the possibilities and pitfalls. i am slowly moving toward courage and away from the misconception that i can tip one toe into the unknown while the other foot holds firm in the certain.


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European Finance Association
The European Finance Association (EFA) was founded in 1974 in collaboration with the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) and the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM).
The aim of the Association is to provide a professional society for academics and practitioners with an interest in financial management, financial theory and its application. The EFA serves as a focal point of communication for its European and international members. It also provides a framework for better dissemination of information and exchange on a global scale.
The Association's Annual Meeting is one of its main activities. Since 1974, the meetings have been organized each year in different cities all over Europe. They provide the opportunity to present research work in the field of corporate finance, investment, financial markets, money and banking.
In 2013, the 40th Annual Conference was held at Cambridge Judge Business School on 28-31 August.


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Pats on the backs of the UCLA Bruins for taking this year's NCAA women's title — the school's first — over Cal (UC Berkeley). On the men's side, the Isner-less Georgia Bulldogs successfully defended their team title with a 4-2 win over the Texas Longhorns.
More: Read Colette Lewis' coverage at ZooTennis.
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Now that the Obama administration has unveiled its blueprint for reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, attention is shifting to whether the proposal will win sufficient support from lawmakers, policymakers, and education advocates to assure passage.
Initial reaction from groups including the American Association of School Administrators, the National School Boards Association, and the Council of Chief State School Officers, has been generally positive, even as policy watchers and advocates are still digesting the blueprint.
But the proposal rolled out March 13 already has two key detractors: The National Education Association, a 3.2 million-member union, and the American Federation of Teachers, a 1.4 million-member union.
Randi Weingarten, the president of the AFT, said last week that the blueprint would place too much responsibility on teachers, without giving them sufficient authority.
And Dennis Van Roekel, the president of the National Education Association, issued a statement saying the proposal "still relies on standardized tests to identify winners and losers. ... We were expecting more funding stability to enable states to meet higher expectations. Instead, the 'blueprint' requires states to compete for critical resources, setting up another winners-and-losers scenario." The NEA has long been one of the most vocal critics of the current version of the law, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002.
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan countered on a conference call with reporters Monday that union critics may have missed a critical aspect of the proposal in their initial appraisal: "Maybe they didn't fully see how much of this now a shared a responsibility," he said.
The secretary—who is scheduled testify on the blueprint before the House and Senate education committees on Wednesday—stressed that the law's current version, the No Child Left Behind Act, focuses most of its attention on individual schools, while largely leaving other key players out of the equation.
"Districts and states weren't a part of the previous law; they would be under our proposal," said Mr. Duncan, apparently referring to language in the blueprint saying that states and districts would be subject to consequences and rewards, as are schools.
And he said there are aspects of the ESEA proposal that teachers are likely to favor, including an emphasis on ensuring that principals and other school leaders are well-prepared and effective.
Fixes and Flexibility
Major elements of the administration's proposal were foreshadowed in the administration's fiscal 2011 budget proposal and in initiatives under the economic-stimulus law.
The administration contends that its long-awaited proposal is aimed at fixing the "flawed" NCLB law to make it more flexible for states, while encouraging them to set higher standards for students.
Under the blueprint, for example, the NCLB deadline for bringing all students to proficiency by the 2013-14 school year—deemed unrealistic by many critics—would be replaced with a goal of ensuring that all students are ready for college or a career by 2020.
But that date appears to be aspirational. Carmel Martin, the assistant secretary for policy, program evaluation, and planning, told reporters last week that it isn't an absolute deadline.
Advocates also were pleased with the blueprint's strategy of focusing the most dramatic interventions on the most troubled schools—those whose performance puts them in the lowest 5 percent in their state. Such schools would have to choose one of four intervention strategies spelled out in the U.S. Department of Education's regulations for the $3.5 billion School Improvement Grant program.
The next-lowest 5 percent of schools, and those that have considerable achievement gaps between the highest- and lowest-performing students, would have to implement research-based interventions.
Schools that are high-performers would be rewarded with recognition, additional dollars, and funding flexibility.
The blueprint would retain key aspects of the NCLB law, including its requirement for annual testing in reading in math in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school, and its call for disaggregating student data for populations such as racial minorities, English-language learners, and students in special education.
The law's reauthorization has been pending since 2007.
Political Pitfalls
Charles Barone, who served as an aide to Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., now the chairman of the House Education Committee, said unions' opposition could cost the proposal Democratic support in Congress, but the "key question" will be to what extent.
"The unions are the ones who have the most political power," said Mr. Barone, who is now the director of federal legislation for Democrats for Education Reform, a political action committee based in New York City that raises money for Democratic candidates who embrace policies such as performance pay and charter schools.
If the administration loses the support of key Democrats because of the unions' opposition, officials will likely need to find more votes within the Republican caucus.
Michael J. Petrilli, who served in the U.S. Department of Education during President George W. Bush's first term, said he expects Republicans will find much to like in the blueprint.
"Republicans who have been arguing for local control should feel to a large degree like they've won the argument," said Mr. Petrilli, who now serves as a vice president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a think tank in Washington. "This [proposal] backs away from federal intrusion big time, at least at the heart of the law, which is the accountability system. … Republicans couldn't expect anything more friendly to the states."
But Rep. John Kline of Minnesota, the top GOP lawmaker on the House Education and Labor Committee, made it clear in a statement released March 15 that there are aspects of the proposal he sees as federal intrusion.
While the blueprint "identifies many of the right goals for improving our schools" there are "still major differences from across the spectrum about the best path forward. Whether it's federal pressure to adopt national standards or prescriptive reporting and school management requirements, this blueprint has already sparked strong debate," he said.
Cautious Backing
Some groups that have been wary of the NCLB law in part because of its expansion of the federal role were largely pleased with the blueprint.
For instance, Anne L. Bryant, the executive director of the National School Boards Association, based in Alexandria, Va., called the proposal "a vast improvement over the flawed No Child Left Behind program which it would now replace."
"We are pleased that the plan would provide a comprehensive set of initiatives by which the federal government could support local school districts to raise student performance and close the achievement gap for academically struggling students in our public schools," she said in a statement.
Still, the NSBA has concerns about aspects of the proposal, including a plan to tie Title I funding to state's adoption of college- and career-ready standards.
Janet Murguía, the president of the National Council of La Raza, an organization in Washington that advocates for Latinos, said in a statement that the blueprint offers "hope that we can eliminate the achievement gap faced by Latino students who have been plagued by decades of low expectations."
But, she said, she'd like to see a stronger mechanism for empowering parents to take advantage of new educational opportunities, such as charter schools.
Mr. Barone, of DFER, is concerned that the vast majority of schools would be able to develop their own interventions. Now, he said, about 40 percent of students need some sort of remedial coursework when they enter college.
"I don't know how you have an identification system that gets at that problem without saying that a lot of schools need to improve," he said.
Some Democrats in Congress have already voiced strong support for the proposal, including Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., the House majority leader.
"It is important to recognize and reward schools that make real progress in raising student achievement, just as it is important to focus our assistance and attention to effectively turn around the lowest-performing schools," Rep. Hoyer said in a statement.
The proposal also won praise from rank-and-file Democrats, including Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., who represents a district in inner-city Philadelphia, and Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., a former Denver schools superintendent, who is facing a tough race in 2010.
The largely positive reception represents a sharp contrast to a 2007 attempt to reauthorize the law.
Rep. Miller released a draft bill nearly three years ago with many of the same elements as the Obama proposal. But the draft was attacked by a broad spectrum of groups, including civil rights advocates and school superintendents. It was never formally introduced as legislation.


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Tony Hayward Before Congress: No Sympathy for the Oil Man
Poor Tony Hayward.
The man was devoured by zombies last week.
Now that we've figured out how history works, we're begging to see the forces of history at work all around us – an eternal fight between the zombies and the producers. We're surrounded by zombies. They are all around us. Tort lawyers. Bureaucrats. Politicians. Welfare slaves. Chiselers. Layabouts. Whiners.
On the way to work, on the Washington beltway, there are so many lobbyists, we have to put up the windows and lock the doors.
But let's look at the economy for a moment. Today is the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. That means the year is almost half over.
Stimulus measures are winding down…joblessness is creeping up again. Houses seem to be getting ready for another tumble.
David Rosenberg:
There is no denying the renewed decline in the US residential market, and this transcends the end of the tax credits – the sector is fundamentally weak. Moreover, demand has not reacted to the latest downdraft in mortgage rates and homebuying intentions are, in a word, moribund. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) housing market index sagged from 22 in May to 17 in June – a three-month low. Buyer traffic receded from 14 to 16 but the real story was the four point collapse in the "future sales outlook," to 23 from 27 – it hasn't been this low since the depths of the recession back in March 2009.
We ran some regressions and found that the "future" component does indeed have the best "fit" with both housing starts and new home sales – the latter is set for a renewed 10% in coming months, to a 600k annual unit rate, and the latter by 30% to the 350k level, which would [be] very close to the all-time low of 338k hit in February 2010. Ouch!
Hey, don't say we didn't warn you. It's a Great Correction, not a recovery.
Stocks began last week with a swagger…but by the end of the week, they were barely crawling forward. Gold ran up day after day, adding another $9 on Friday. It looks as though it is aiming for the $1,300 mark.
Meanwhile, the zombies are gaining ground.
Last Thursday must have seemed like the longest day to Tony Hayward.
"Congress mauls BP chief," is the way The Financial Times put it.
Mr. Hayward was confronted by a panel of zombies in Congress. They chained him to a rock so the members of the energy committee could take turns feeding on his internal organs.
For 7 hours, the BP CEO was asked the same questions, over and over again. No matter how many times he was asked, the answers were always the same. No, he wasn't an expert on the bonding properties of sub-sea cement. No, he wasn't there when the rig exploded. No, he didn't know exactly what went wrong; he was waiting for the results of the experts' inquiry, along with everyone else.
But the zombies didn't really care about getting to the bottom of things. They were going for the jugular. And the right arm. And the liver.
From the reports we've read, Mr. Hayward held up pretty well. He played his part. He did not wander from the script. He remained calm as he was dismembered. His voice did not quake or complain as his liver was removed.
The politicians on the committee, meanwhile, were disappointing. Even for zombies. Hayward was the straight man. The zombies had the TV audience on their side. They should have made us laugh and cry. But for all their theatrical skills they seemed unable to do more than summon up a worn-out look of mock indignation. Like a man who wants to get rid of his wife and then catches her in flagrante delicto; their outrage seemed more stagey than authentic.
Neither Hayward, nor the leading zombies, Henry Waxman and Bart Stupak, will win Oscars. Still, they mostly performed as you'd expect. Hayward said what he had to say. His tormentors feigned profound concern for the fishes and fowl, the flora and fauna of the Gulf area, not to mention the oilmen idled by Barack Obama.
What disturbed us was the crowd reaction. There was a time when Americans had a sense of fair play. At least, we'd like to think so. In a fight between a group of zombies and a real producer, their sympathies should be with the oil man. After all, when they drive into the filling station, it's not the Congressional Record that they pump into their fuel tanks. And when they heat their homes, it's not tort lawyers whom they look to for fuel. Gasoline is valuable. They know it. And they know that someone has to get it. In fact, so keen is their demand for octane, and so high is the price, that the producers are lured farther and farther away from dry land. No one would drill a mile below the water for oil unless a lot of people wanted it badly. Sooner or later, one of the rigs was bound to spring a big leak.
You'd think the public would have more sympathy for the people who risk their lives and their money bringing oil to market.


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Now that health care reform is out of the way (praise f'ing Zeus!), what's next for the Senate? Several issues are jockeying for attention: jobs, financial reform, immigration, and others. More than one senator has said that there's just no time to get to climate and energy this year, especially after the protracted and divisive health care fight.
Now, finally, it looks like there's some pushback. Last Friday, Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, co-signed by a broad and diverse selection of Senate Democrats, expressing strong support for passing comprehensive climate and energy legislation this year.
"Our lack of a comprehensive clean energy policy hurts job creation and increases regulatory uncertainty throughout our economy," Udall writes. "Businesses are waiting on Congress before investing billions in energy, transportation, manufacturing, building and other sectors. … We need to take action in order to lead the emerging sectors that will drive our economic recovery."
Interestingly, the co-signers include several crucial moderates and fence-sitters, including Casey, Begich, Tester, Stabenow, and Cantwell. This is a positive sign that, divisions aside, real appetite remains in the Democratic caucus for tackling this issue.
Here's who signed:
- Tom Udall (N.M.)
- Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.)
- Michael Bennet (Colo.)
- Kay Hagan (N.C.)
- Ron Wyden (Ore.)
- Mark Begich (Alaska)
- Sherrod Brown (Ohio)
- Tom Harkin (Iowa)
- Tom Carper (Del.)
- Mark Udall (Colo.)
- Al Franken (Minn.)
- Debbie Stabenow (Mich.)
- Jeff Merkley (Ore.)
- Patty Murray (Wash.)
- Ted Kaufman (Del.)
- Ronald Burris (Ill.)
- Bob Casey Jr. (Pa.)
- Mark Warner (Va.)
- Maria Cantwell (Wash.)
- Arlen Specter (Pa.)
- Jon Tester (Mont.)
- Amy Klobuchar (Minn.)
Here's the letter [PDF].
Aaaand now of course I see that Darren Samuelsohn at E&E already scooped me on this. Damn him. At least he's behind a pay wall!


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Microsoft unleashes improved Firefox
Open source community in state of shock
Updated [Update: The msfirefox site went offline earlier this morning. Which may or may not have something to do with Microsoft lawyers. Thanks for all the emails and we're sorry for spoiling breakfast for some Mozilla fans.]
The open source community is in a state of shock this morning at the news that Microsoft has released a version of popular browser Firefox.
The audacious move, which pretty well guarantees Redmond control of the entire browser market, will be received with dismay among those who previously believed that the might of Bill Gates' chequebook could, and should, be resisted.
Naturally, Microsoft has made some improvements to the product, and the new features offered to Firefox fans include:
Simplified user experience
Microsoft Firefox presents a noticeably simpler, more streamlined, less cluttered interface than all other browsers. The introduction of the Cut Away Effect™ randomly disables the rendering of 9/10 of Microsoft Firefox [and] helps to reduce the strain on system resources. This also maximizes the area of the screen devoted to the desktop that you want to see and makes performing the most common computing tasks easy.
Amazing marginal manipulation
Automatically scales a printed margin so that it's not wider than the paper it will be printed on. Microsoft Firefox also includes a multi-page margin preview with live margins, resizing margins to avoid margin clipping, and an option to print only selected margins. Never have you seen a more robust margin technology in one small package.
Instant search box
Web searches using your favorite Microsoft search provider can now be entered into a search box within the toolbar. By eliminating the clutter of other search engines, you can easily choose a REAL reliable Microsoft provider from the dropdown list.
Tabbed browsing
View multiple Microsoft sites in a single browser window. Easily switch from one Microsoft site to another through tabs at the top of the browser frame.
Seems plausible enough. Of course, it's in the area of security where MS Firefox really scores:
Dynamic security protection
Microsoft Firefox 2007 provides security through a robust new architecture, security features that help defend against malicious software, and new ways to better protect against the theft of personal data from fraudulent websites, a practice known as Googling.
Third party opt-in
Disables nearly all pre-installed non-Microsoft software to prevent potentially vulnerable controls from being exposed to attack. You can easily enable or disable required programs as needed through the Add-on Manager by using any valid credit card.
Security status bar
Enhances awareness of website security and privacy settings by displaying colour-coded notifications next to the address bar. Microsoft Firefox changes the address bar to green for websites bearing the Microsoft Partnership Certificate, indicating the site owner has completed extensive identity and friendship verification checks. Googling filter notifications, certificate names, and the gold padlock icon are now also adjacent to the address bar for better visibility.
Googling filter
Proactively warns and helps protect you against potential or known fraudulent sites such as Google.com, blocks the site and shuts down your computer if necessary. The filter is updated several times per hour using the latest security information from Microsoft.
Delete browsing history
Allows you to clean up cached pages, passwords, form data, cookies, and history of illegal warez and propaganda sites - all from a single window.
Address bar protection
Every window, whether it's a pop-up or standard window, will present an address bar to the user, helping to block malicious sites such as Yahoo.com.
Parental controls
To help keep kids safer online, parents can control browsing behavior through the parental control settings built into Microsoft Firefox with an extensive range of options - on or off. Force your child to browse educational Microsoft based content sites only. Teaching your children programming for "native Javascript objects for rich AJAX-style applications" has never been easier. Browsing sessions are automatically examined by Microsoft marketing representatives 24/7.
Microsoft Firefox is available for download here. Please note it won't run on Mac or Linux. ®
Thanks to the many readers who alerted us to this shocking and quite unbelievable piece of news.


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- Research article
- Open access
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Sample size requirements for case-control study designs
BMC Medical Research Methodology volume 1, Article number: 11 (2001)
Published formulas for case-control designs provide sample sizes required to determine that a given disease-exposure odds ratio is significantly different from one, adjusting for a potential confounder and possible interaction.
The formulas are extended from one control per case to F controls per case and adjusted for a potential multi-category confounder in unmatched or matched designs. Interactive FORTRAN programs are described which compute the formulas. The effect of potential disease-exposure-confounder interaction may be explored.
Software is now available for computing adjusted sample sizes for case-control designs.
Breslow and Day [1] and Smith and Day [2] provide asymptotic formulas for the computation of case-control sample sizes required for odds ratios, unadjusted or adjusted for a confounder [1] and for stratified matched designs [2]. The notation we use is their notation. Their formulas are extended here to include more than one control per case. The formulas for stratified matched were deduced from applying the approach of Breslow and Day [1] (pages 305–6) to Table 7 of [2]. Modification of the formulas for specified interactions [1, 3] is also shown. These formulas are based on the logarithm of the odds ratio, for which the normal approximation is more accurate than for the exposure difference, so these formulas are more accurate than the exposure difference formula that is given in the majority of general methods references [4, 5].
Two conversational FORTRAN programs, DAYSMITH and DESIGN, compute the formulas. They were submitted to STATLIB for non-commercial distribution a few years ago, and are obtained with an e-mail message such as "send design.exe from general" to http://email@example.com. The programs produce a table of numbers of cases and controls required for a variety of specifications of Type I and Type II error, adjusted for the confounder, unadjusted, and adjusted for stratified matching, with the strata being the levels of the confounder. The two programs have different input requirements. Program DAYSMITH asks for exactly the items required for the Smith and Day formulas. Program DESIGN accepts alternative input that is converted in the program to the items required for the same formulas. The formulas used are shown in Appendix 1.
The input to program DAYSMITH
The sample sizes computed are for the detection of a given disease-exposure odds ratio, that is, the sample sizes at which a certain statistical test will reject the null hypothesis that the odds ratio is one. The input items are as follows:
R E = the odds ratio to be detected (typically a minimum value),
S = 1 or 2 for one-sided or two-sided type I error,
F = the number of controls per case,
P = the control population exposure probability, and
I = an indicator to request interaction adjustment.
Roughly speaking, interaction in statistics corresponds to effect modification in epidemiology. By not selecting an interaction adjustment, we effectively assume that the disease-exposure odds ratio does not differ across confounder levels. Interaction is discussed further below.
The number of confounder levels, denoted K is asked for next. If K = 1, unadjusted sample sizes only are computed, and no other input is required. Program DESIGN is identical to this point. For most applications, no confounder adjustment is required and so the program returns unadjusted sample sizes and is finished after a 1 is entered for K. The unadjusted formula [1] is more accurate than the usual unadjusted formulas [4, 5], and may therefore produce different sample sizes than those.
If K > 1, one of the levels of the confounder is taken to be a reference level, and is referred to as level one. The order of the levels is otherwise immaterial. The input required next is three numbers for each of the K–1 remaining levels, p 1i , p 2i , and R Ci , i = 2,..., K, which are
p 1i = Pr(C i |E) = among the exposed population, the proportion at level i of the confounder,
= among the unexposed population, the proportion at level i of the confounder, and
R Ci = the disease-confounder odds ratio (with confounder level i versus level 1).
For the reference level, we set R c1= 1 for the formulas that follow. We compute
and .
Input for program DESIGN
Whereas DAYSMITH asks for the same input as requested in the original references [1–3], we found that alternative input made more sense for our initial applications [6, 7], so a second program was written. The input for DESIGN is the same as for DAYSMITH up to the point after which the number of levels of the confounder, K, is asked for.
Again, one of the levels of the confounder is taken to be a reference level, and is referred to as level one. The input that is required next is one number for the reference level, r i , and then three (four when interaction is included) numbers for each of the K–1 remaining levels, r i , p i , and R Ci , i = 2,...,K, which are
r i = Pr(E|C i ) = the probability of exposure at level i of the confounder,
p i = Pr(C i ) = the probability of being in level i of the confounder, and
R Ci = the odds ratio of disease and confounder level i (versus level 1).
For the reference level, we again set R Ci = 1.
From Bayes Theorem, we compute
p1i=ripi/P and
p2i=(1 – ri)pi/(1 – P).
We have one more input item than is actually required, and that is used for a check, where we can use the fact that
What we actually do is check the sum
The sum Δ is supposed to be equal to one. If it is not one, then we re-define and report
unless they are negative. An alternative used in earlier versions was to compute
and replace
p ji
for j = 1,2 and i = 1,...,K.This is equivalent to replacing
r i
i = 1,..., K, which is how the program used to report the change.
An example, adjusting for a confounder
The following example is one of several computations performed for a published research protocol for a study of the association of oral contraceptive (OC) use with cardiovascular risks, controlling for age group [6]. A related protocol [7] has smoking as a confounder.
The numbers entered for P, r i , p i , and R Ci , i = 2,...,K, are all taken from the Saskatchewan government medical database, which includes the entire population from which a case-control sample is to be taken. In many applications, such numbers are not available from a reliable source. In that case, one may try sets of alternative minimum and maximum numbers for a range of results. The maximum sample sizes obtained from such sensitivity analyses would be the conservative recommendation.
Both programs first request R E to I. For R E , the outcome of interest is hospitalisation due to certain cardiovascular risks. The exposure is a specific OC with 10% of the market share [7]. Since overall OC prevalence is 30%, then P = .03 for that specific OC. Using > to denote the cursor for computer entry, we type:
>2 2 3 .03 0
for R E , S, F, P and I, respectively, then press enter. We then receive the message:
Type the number of confounder levels, and <enter>. Type 1 if no confounder.
We enter 5 levels and press enter.
Now type in the population exposure probability for the reference level of the confounding variable.
This will be put at level 1, so it is Pr(E|C1)
The confounder levels are five age groups, and level 1 corresponds to the youngest age group 15–21, for which we enter the prevalence for a specific OC with 10% of the market share. We type .055 and press enter.
> .055
The reply is:
Now type in, for each of the other 4 level(s) of the confounding variable, Pr(E|Ci), Pr(Ci), and Rc(i), separated by at least one blank or <enter>, where Pr(E|Ci) = in the population at level i of the confounder, the proportion exposed, Pr(Ci) = the probability of being at level i, and Rc(i) = odds ratio of disease and confounder level i (versus level 1).
The following numbers are entered for age groups 22–26, 27–31, 22–39 and 40+:
> .038 .24 2
> .021 .2 8
> .008 .18 8
> .004 .15 28.5
Note that Rc(5) = R C5 = 28.5, a very high value. That is to be expected if all older women are included. (For the final protocol [6], a cut-off was made at age 45.) When enter is pressed, we receive some confirmation of the input, and a message that the result is written to file design.out. That is, as currently written, the sample sizes and other output are not automatically shown on the screen, but are saved in "design.out" to be viewed directly there. Appendix 2 (Second attached file, app2.txt, a text file) shows the output from the preceding session, which includes a correction of the input values.
Looking at Appendix 2, we see unadjusted sample sizes, those adjusted for age in an unmatched study, and a third set of sample sizes for a matched case-control study. For our example [6], both unmatched and matched designs are considered. With the low value of P and the high value R C5, we see that a large difference in sample sizes required for either design may result. In most applications, however, the differences are not so dramatic.
Adjusting for a matching confounder
Epidemiological literature usually gives formulas for matching which are based on the strong assumption that all sources of extraneous variation among a case and its controls are accounted for [1, 8, 9]. A third program DESIGNM was written to compute such a formula (from [1], p.294), but DESIGNM does not adjust for a confounding variable, and that strong assumption of implicit matching is rarely justified in case-control studies, so this program was not made freely available. Software which compute sample sizes for conditional logistic regression, such as EGRET SIZ[10], are alternatives to DESIGNM, which is based on Miettinen's test of the Mantel-Haenszel odds ratio for matched case-control designs. The adjustment in DAYSMITH and DESIGN is for stratified matching [2, 11, 12], where matching is by confounders. This presumes that the eventual analysis will be unconditional [2] and will account for the stratification. Consequently, it is not required that F controls be linked with each case, only that the total number of controls be F times the total number of cases.
The literature [1, 3, 13, 15] discusses stratified analysis interaction adjustment only for confounders with K = 2. It is easy, however, to modify the formulas for multi-level interaction. Every occurrence of R E in the formulas (Appendix 1) is replaced by R E R Ij , where R Ij is the interaction factor corresponding to the j th level, j = 2,..., K. (For ∑', put R Ij inside the first sum.) We set R I1 = 1.
For two confounder levels, R I2, which is R I in Smith and Day's notation [3], is the multiplicative factor by which the odds ratio for those exposed and in level 2 of the confounder is different from the odds ratio when there is confounder-exposure-disease interaction. For R Ij , contrast is between level j and the reference level (level one).
This adjustment was made available for sensitivity analysis; specifically, to explore how much the sample size result could change if the confounder were in fact an effect modifier. Nevertheless, the adjusted formulas have been used to determine sample size in the presence of gene-environment interaction [13].
The competitors to these programs are regression-based sample size programs, such as those in EGRET SIZ [10], which compute sample sizes required for unconditional logistic regression. The package nQuery [14] has an unconditional logistic regression option, but is not set up for case-control designs. These may be useful for continuous exposures, and make sense when the final analysis is intended to be such a regression, rather than a stratified analysis, such as a Mantel-Haenszel test, which our programs correspond to. We are unaware of any generally available competitor for stratified analysis.
In a series of papers on sample-size estimation to detect gene-environment interaction, which is a controversial role for sample-size formulas, comparisons have been made between regression based approaches and the stratified analysis approach [13, 15]. One solution is even to consider a case-only design [16]. EGRET SIZ provides no guidance for interaction adjustment, but it probably could be used for that purpose.
When there is more than one confounder, we define one super-confounder, where each category corresponds to a sub-category. For example, if age, with 5 categories, and smoking, with 2 categories, are both confounders, then we define one super-confounder with 10 = 5 × 2 categories. The estimates of r i , p i , and R Ci , i = 2, ...,10, then all have to take age and smoking into account jointly. As the number of confounders and the size of K increases, regression-based sample size programs become more advantageous, since information is not required for every sub-category.
The current programs yield results for 80% and 90% power, but versions are available for alternative powers, from 60% to 95%. A new version may print to the screen, if users want that option, and ask whether sample sizes for a specific power and Type I error are required.
The programs described are for two levels of disease (case vs. control) and of exposure. For several levels of exposure or disease, measures are available which correspond to odds ratios, risk ratios and risk differences [17], and it is not difficult to compute sample size formulas for these. If there is some demand, software to do those calculations may be created.
The Breslow-Day-Smith formulas which we extend utilize the classical method, based on testing. A more modern approach is that based on a confidence interval for the odds ratio [18], which may eventually become a program option. A Bayesian approach seems most suited for the sample size problem, although some issues need to be resolved [19]. Although not yet written, a Bayesian solution will soon be formulated for case-control designs.
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